why some acoustic album and tough double sounds it's. that has become a problem and global is to create a creation of the biggest food system the global food system is not created to feed the people of the world is created to maximize the profits. journal trading the actual cash physical grain your trading promises for grain to be delivered a month or six months or twelve months or eighteen months in the future. for reasons moderate like silver or gold that can be negotiated and afforded some degree of. place. yet or.

possibly it's not traded now but it could be in the future. plans of teams being interviewed protean republic. center of russian defense production. quality heads to central russia. to crops of become an industry. the harsh winter makes most even more enjoyable. and with everyone trying to be a stump. for the younger small fringe. pressure close up on the hot seat. now let's have a look at some international news making headlines around the world this hour and a german officials say to all have been shot dead on a bass carrying u.s. soldiers of frankfurt airport at least one other passenger has been seriously wounded please have reportedly arrested a twenty one year old suspect from kosovo the u.s.

army says it can't confirm the shootings but is looking into the incident. pakistan's minister for religious minorities is in killed in the girl attack in the country's capital police say alleged taliban gunmen sprayed the victim's car with bullets in a residential neighborhood shahbaz bhatti who was a christian have been threatened by islamic militants in the past and speaking out against the country's hotspots only laws earlier in the year of punjab governor was gunned down by one of his own bodyguards for his opposition to the rules. nato has apologized for killing nine civilians in northeast afghanistan the coalition's those preliminary findings indicate that native forces accidentally killed nine teenagers on tuesday local officials say the boys aged twelve and under were hit by an airstrike while gathering on my word because relations says there was a miscommunication river made should be concerned location of alleged militants.

thousands of people living with me and counts are holding a rally in india to protest of trade deal between the country and the european union the protesters want the government against signing any deal that would increase the cost of basic drugs denying tens of thousands of people treatment demonstrators marched through the streets of central new delhi before holding a meeting of the indian parliament. as changes sweep through the middle east and north africa u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton has called for changes in u.s. foreign policy desperate to influence the emerging political map the future of american involvement of broad is the top of the government's agenda are things christine brazile takes a look at the changing face of washington's priorities. afghanistan iraq egypt. libya. when it comes to

u.s. foreign policy this country's hands are not just full they're often tied secretary of state hillary clinton charged with the task of laying out a plan for the future generations of americans including my own have grown up successful and safe because we chose to lead the world and tackling the greatest challenges but now clear signs that the challenges and the times are changing a lot of people in this country have come to the conclusion that our policy overhaul has been inconsistent that sometimes we support bad guys and the bad guys become our enemy. when eleven has been a major year with major shifts in prominence and power in northern africa and the middle east. and signs that us will influence maybe we need just days before the regime of the egyptian president hosni mubarak fell both secretary clinton and cia director leon panetta called it stable until it was.

there are also in consistencies on the war in afghanistan in afghanistan integrated military and civilian surges have helped set the stage for our diplomatic surge to support afghan led reconciliation that could end the conflict and put al qaeda on the run but robert one kansas senior u.n. official just said quote it is fair to say that security in the country is that its lowest point since the departure of the taliban even secretary of defense robert gates said this just last week to a group of cadets at west point in my opinion any futures defense secretary who advises the president to again send a big american land army and asia. or into the middle east or africa. should have his head examined as general macarthur so delicately put it there is also the matter of money u.s. own economy weak and losing loveridge to other powers like china and brazil another

frustrated voiced by lawmakers doesn't make any sense at all for us to be borrowing money from china and give it to other countries especially giving it back to china . now when it comes to iran there is a clear position given by the state department the denial of human dignity in iran is an outrage that deserves the condemnation of all who speak out for freedom and justice but in many other regions like the rain albania and most prominently iraq where many many more people are killed at the hands of u.s. allied governments the silence is deafening. and as the landscape changes daily in libya cracks in the foundation here grow deeper we must maintain firm ties with our allies and enemies must be clearly identified it is a constantly changing position on good versus evil and increasingly diminishing

power to influence what's next in washington christine for is now r.t. . belongs to the u.s. are. celebrating his eightieth birthday he's been awarded with russia's highest honor by president in the revered and hundred medal for his work as the soviet leader for many people his name is synonymous with the end of the cold war through unification of germany and liberalism with his economic and political reforms he paved the way for democracy in russia is besting policy but a story to rebalance the country without destroying the basis of socialism his initiatives also led to the cancellation of state censorship and the creation of free speech. received the nobel peace prize in one thousand. ninety a year later however kids started changing but then that the thought it union and got a bunch of the parts of his critics say plans the charts have. it still

being felt today pop a former leader still thinks russell will. change. it. up but when he said we realized from experience that it was dangerous to wait much longer that we have to take a risk but we couldn't postpone as we needed changes i don't agree when people say that perestroika failed it didn't fail it was disrupted the rails stopped but still perestroika achieved a lot inside russia we have democracy free elections freedom of conscience part of property freedom to travel abroad everything also glasnost there was so much openness the entire country was affected people realized they had finally got some freedom an opportunity to act in foreign affairs we put an end to the cold war we normalized our relationship with the u.s. we reunited germany we didn't send our tanks our troops there all our units in

eastern europe stayed where they were it wasn't always easy many things did not work out the way we planned at the beginning when we made our first mistakes we didn't really explain to people what was going on and didn't get them involved in all those processes we were self-confident nor put in public politics i don't think we have ever lost a major battle nuclear arsenals were significantly reduced thanks to our efforts during perestroika today when the world is so divided we need to find things that bring us together for instance the g twenty is a step which brings us closer it's an instrument election isn't for hunting the hardest and most challenging issues but we need more than that it's a matter of learning to live in a global world. well you can watch the full interview with mikhail gorbachev next hour i'll settle with i'll debate you crosstalk coming up in just around ten minutes on where his is about his guests discuss part of the legacy. now doctors in russia developing

a pioneering alternative treatments a hot chance bonds and with the shortage of organ donations in the country the technique is giving hope to thousands of people in surgery waiting list. it's a smile that comes straight from the heart i thought she almost died from heart failure two decades ago but these visits are cardiology ward for regular check out. look at her she's just a picture of health but i know she's been living with a new heart longer than with their own. dr carey chalk aerated on the tar should point you want to years ago but a donor organ was her only hope for live one of the best known cardiac surgeons in russia he performed hundreds of lifesaving transplants but still thinks of the thousands he couldn't do because of the shortage of donor organs nowadays he's pioneering any technique that gives some patients on the analyst waiting list

a more definite hope. a heart transplant is not a panacea firstly the supply of donor organs is so short that you can only hope a smattering of patients secondly it brings with it a number of complications starting with ethical dilemmas to biological functions that's why finding an alternative treatment that will allow to preserve a host organ is so crucial. the treatment. remodelling consists of seven surgeries the together reverse the damage to a broken heart russian doctor started performing it two years ago and it's long term a fact witness is still being tested yet for someone like this patient not to it already proved a real life changer you already where was first diagnosed doctors told me i had a year to leave now and i have all the reasons to hope that i'll see my little daughter grow art i was told that i may steal your heart transplant in the future but the surgery was there before years of. the just eighteen serious risk carried

out these procedures is far from being read see you hear this successful recovery of older patients has already given to many on the transplant waiting list a change of heart reconstructionist into a has many advantages that were heart transplant patients don't have to change your and adding izing and far from guaranteed and wait for do no more than the chances of successful recovery a higher but like heart transplant it's procedure has one major setback the gap between those who need it and those who get it is to discard any huge so we cut our teeth in moscow where the more stories you explore on our websites r.t. dot com he says the taste was online now morning the way news free world russia persists the nation is supposed to start their own longer dungeon program. moscow is getting its own existing capitals famous sports and pollack is going to

have a place there where they lead ins and dollars with romanov i'm over it supposedly behind. when i'll be back with a recap our top stories in just a few minutes all next day with the latest business things to be true. welcome to business are so good to have your company oil prices are continuing to look at the highest levels in more than two years as tension the north africa middle east continues to fuel concerns over crude supplies libya's oil chief has just announced a fifty percent drop in the country's credit for the auction and unexpected drop in crude supply in the u.s. and also contributing to the growth brant crude. rose to almost one hundred sixteen

dollars a barrel on wednesday and light sweet as hovering around the one hundred dollar mark news that saudi arabia may not take any significant steps to bring down the price of crude oil until brant reaches under twenty dollars a barrel added. total says russia is a safe market for investments and more stable than other oil producing countries meeting with president of l.f. head of the french oil giant of the military said the unrest in northern africa and middle east is only making russia more attractive you're blocking the fundamental upheavals going now taking place in oil and gas producing countries gives a signal for all investors that they should be going to russia as russia of was much safer conditions for investments going on the owners of russian british reporter they made an eight billion dollar bid to rewrite the peace deal with

rosneft it's another move by the russian british joint venture to try and get involved in the arctic shelf exploration deal that's ended because there's more on the story. has been the latest twist in the ongoing conflict between b.p. and their russian joint venture tim k.b.p.s. over the right to develop the enormous energy reserves in the russian the arctic together with ross and after media reports the russian content you have going for it to buy a five percent stake in b.p. for about eight billion dollars experts say the company wants to buy has paid and then swap it for shares in roughly half which b.p. plans to acquire just to remind you in january b.p. announced a deal with the russian oil major to swap shares and to create a joint venture to explore the russian arctic however the russians have holders of b.p. is russian venture to pay b.p. object of the deal saying that it violates their agreement with the british company that any new project called b.p. in russia should be implemented via t n k b a p the latest offer to buy b.p.

a stake is expected to be discussed with the company's directors at ten k. b.p. board me it's a friday. as they can look at the stock market start in the united states and this trading positively of their payroll processor a.d.p. said that private companies added two hundred seventeen thousand jobs and this is news just the basis from generous february well about the one hundred eighty thousand new jobs and the side predicted this is feeling optimism about the recovery next. in your shares of managed to somewhat recovery efforts in just the no chin positive territory the dax still down a cent this is as investors are continuing to pressure being rest of the middle east and north africa. turned to russia now where markets ended in the positive territory wednesday's trade this is after the positive opening in the united states the russian energy sector is benefiting from oil prices and gold companies assuming

a significant gains as the price for precious metal gets i'll take a look at the second first some of the stocks one is gold. of the biggest gainers two and a half percent energy majors also including gas probably on point two percent of the treasury goods burbank was down zero point four percent price of gold is a new record highs investors turned towards the precious metal in times of uncertainty so was also in demand half a percent to thirty four dollars eighty four a stance. sevastopol is seeing three steel plants in the united states go for sale for two hundred twenty five million dollars the company said the private holding firm the group has agreed to buy warren wheeling and arrows. voice of a stone of america the deal making it completed already this month and will include a cash payment and security high court of london has rejected eleanor's suit to

postpone a google com shareholders meeting to approve the deal just in these wind telecom and it's over twenty terrible com signed a deal with wind by egyptian billionaire give so we is in a bid to create the world's fifth largest mobile operator by subscriber numbers however norway's talent on which is available com shareholder said it would vote against the deal arguing that the matter scheme and the merger scheme would dilute it's wild. hasta if they do you will be will hold twenty five percent stake only on the shareholder agreement with. the kind of go below zero point five percent however i think they're afraid that in future they could be towed further some harm and basically he just wants to exercise a parameter for rights. that's a separate cases from the your desire to build with you as if the situation is not for the company i think the best you could do you is that as fast as possible so

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culture is that so much material to make into a lot of people a good idea but as he turns eighty million of a child's legacy sees him loved abroad in loath to home as glasnost and perestroika become distant memories we. good samaritan. excellent professional. looks travel much possessing an extra ordinary car. the doctor who helped many people in his country. the political criminal responsible for thousands of deaths. was it an attempt to repent. or just escape a fair trial. the other life clubs around among. on our team. some are your family.

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ok this is see carries over iraq because the u.k. considers when to trade to bench and in libya some fear the only thing violence in the obama good can trigger and the disastrous campaign as well as all the foreign governments that said they are against marines which involve the use of international military will still. be u.s. foreign policy of americans still in the country and the changing political position in which case they regularly seize them supporting the bad guy who'd major

shifts in power in parts of north africa the middle east some americans fear the rest will shake that constant movement. on the last leader of the soviet union celebrates his eightieth birthday mr. brown behind the constellation of state says the ship and the promotion of free speech bought some making him paid in the way it was struck to back new york city or for this. his destiny golf how the legacy of a father of russian democracy is seen both in russia and on the other side of the atlantic costal is up next. keep. following well across town peter lavelle as he turns eighty neil got a bunch of slaves each season loved abroad in

a low thin home as glasnost and perestroika become distant memories of we ask how will history judge the man who seemingly ended history. can. you discuss the legacy of the last soviet leader i'm joined by stephen cohen here in the studio he's a professor of russian studies and history at new york university and his latest book is the victims return survivors of the gulag after stalin in london we go to geoffrey hosking he's an american professor of russian history at university college london and his latest book is rulers and victims the russians in the soviet union and also in london we have lad sobel he's an analyst at the i would securities and another member of our crosstalk team on the hunt all right gentlemen this is crossfire that means you can jump in anytime you want stephen i want to go to you first here as got a bunch of is eighty years old today and let's talk about global legacy and then let's go to specific to russia what is his contribution to history at eighty years

old remembering his rule and in the soviet union well one contribution is already recorded in history he set free the countries of eastern and central europe that's done where they go from here is up to them what's not said on the written history is the fate of democracy in russia there are different opinions about the condition of democracy in russia whether and he has very strong opinions about our positions and for good reason he wants to go down in history as the father of russian democracy in the west we attribute it to yeltsin but that's not true now if. democracy flourishes in russia one day and stabilizes russia will go to gorbachev a good one is the greatest from former russian history if democracy falters and fails in russia he'll go down in history as another tragic russian reformer he knows that and that's why his blood pressure about what's going on in russia is rising on his eightieth birthday already maybe he's just protecting his legacy here

ok vlad i was today and i was going to go to you anyway go ahead live if he is here is that maybe some people attribute democracy to one leader or another but most russians don't attribute democracy to either yeltsin or got a bunch of go ahead. i would just like to make one point that i think that gorbachev was actually responsible for peaceful disintegration of the soviet union and i think this is a very important point especially when we see what's happening in the middle east so that would be my first point and secondly i would argue that russian democracy superseding on course i don't think that little bit of a thirty thirty and isn't in the meantime to stabilize the political system to stabilize the economy will actually do very much harm and i would argue that. place it in that video is now leading a new way if similar to perestroika and i would guess that in about ten years we will see genuine democratization in russia it's very and it jeff i got to you in

london i mean it's very interesting here because we see it live lived here for twelve years and and we don't hear the word perestroika but a lot of people would attribute the attributes what we you all of us here we think of the district is coming about under putin not under yeltsin or got a bunch of. well i was going to say that i don't think god would trust reputation depends on what happens in the future now i think his reputation is there to see he was in charge for five years he launched democratic reform there's no doubt about that he started the process he dissolved the communist party of the soviet union he set up elections in which they would change parties conducting a fight with each other but he didn't and couldn't take the process through to its end i mean for one thing he never himself stood for election as president of russia which would have been or of the soviet union which would have been the logical outcome of his democratic reforms he didn't have the courage or the insight it seems to me to take that process of democratization through to its logical conclusion it steve if i could and one of the things we talk about what kind of

striking glasnost is reforming the soviet union but was it reform a bold ok let's look at the economy ok the that type of command economy failed now how do you fix that you just have to exit don't you know i mean many countries are introduced elements of another economic system into a very confusing hybrid would have worked but it's not a hybrid i mean most economies in the twentieth century have been extra kind of the state market economies i mean what would roosevelt's new deal was an attempt to introduce a large state sector into what had been an uncontrolled private sector group which tried to do the reverse to introduce the market into a state economy the chinese did it the hungary and said done it even before going to chart a course it's doable but it's going on around the world you know it was going in reverse direction because what do you think that that's the data that's the difference but on the other hand there's no evidence that it wasn't possible i mean it's a long process and i don't actually agree with jeffrey in the sense that he didn't

carry the process through to the end you would have had to have the temperament in the power of stalin to impose full democracy on russia in one thousand eight hundred nine hundred ninety the problem was group which off was the quintessential anti stalinist he had come to dismantle the system and let me remind you of one of the think i admit i don't go to. for twenty years i'm not entirely objective to be fair but george washington was elected president the united states by the american congress not by popular vote it's a process that has to begin someplace that was a step forward ok you're talking about other countries and i agree with you that mixed economy is in fact a general rule in the twentieth century but the question really is was the soviet union reformable now when introduced elements of a private enterprise into the soviet economy what the private enterprise did was to suck goods out of the state economy and create an economic crisis where there were desperate shortages in the cities so that the way he carried out the reform did not work or it worked badly values.